External supplier interfacing

The external supplier interfacing allows you to quickly add products from an external supplier on a quotation, purchase order... with the correct, current prices.

Overview suppliers + functionality

Supplier		Product list	Shopping cart	Synchronize	Placing orders	Import orders
2BA	Aggregator of products from hundreds of suppliers .	✅	✅	☁️
Cebeo	Electrical wholesaler for all electrical equipment	✅	✅	☁️️	✅
Desco	Wholesaler of bathroom, plumbing and heating	✅	✅	✅	✅
Fitting Shop	An online platform for HVAC installers and pre-sellers. Specializing in fittings	✅	✅	☁️	✅
Cramp	Europe's largest specialist in parts and accessories for agriculture, forestry and lawn care	✅		✅	✅	✅
Rexel	Wholesale electrical equipment	✅	✅	✅
Royal Crown	Royal Crown is a network of independent kitchen and interior designers who join forces to promote Belgian customization	✅		✅	✅
STG	Sanitary Technical Wholesale. The national wholesale distributor of plumbing, heating and installation technology	✅	✅	⚠️	✅
Technical Union	Wholesaler of technical installation materials for construction, installation and industry		✅
From Oirschot	Wholesaler for professionals in HVAC	✅	✅	☁️	✅
Viessmann	Viessmann offers customized solutions for heating and power generation	✅	✅	✅	✅

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✅ Supported
⚠️ Price list must be manually imported by IAMD
☁️ Prices are always re-fetched from supplier and are therefore always up-to-date

Activate link

Each user who needs the link must add it to their profile themselves
The link can be set up under your profile in IAMD.

You do this as follows


Go to the cog icon at the top and click on profile
Go to the links tab:
Click the '+ Add' button at the bottom left and choose a supplier .
In the pop-up, enter the customer number, your personal login for the webshop and your personal password for the webshop. (Not the data to log into our application)
Then click save.
The link is now activated.

The requested info may vary by vendor. Please check the supplier's page for more details

Add products to your quote/order/delivery

At the quotation level, when adding lines, under product, you will now be given some additional options.

These options are:

List of vendor (this is the list of all active items of the vendor present in the IAMD database)
Store basket of vendor (this option will take you to the vendor's store basket. You can add products in here and pick them up in your quote, directly from the webshop)
Own library (these are your products, you will find them under products in your IAMD environment and do not come in through the supplier link)

From the supplier list


Choose your supplier by clicking on the logo
Designate one or more articles and click add at the bottom of your screen
The items have now been added to the lines in your quote. The net price will be taken over to the cost price field, the gross price will be taken over to the sales price field.

Shopping basket from vendor

Not every vendor supports this method


Choose a supplier by clicking on the logo
Supplier's webshop opens.
Add the desired items to your shopping cart using the shop's search function and then click add.
The requested item will be read into your quotation. The net price will be transferred to the cost price field, the gross price will be transferred to the sales price field.

Creating a product in your own product catalog

If you want to turn an added supplier article into your own article you can do so by clicking on the little truck behind the line and clicking on the create a fixed product button. The supplier's webshop will open in a new tab and you will find there the detailed article info in the supplier's shop.

Synchronize products

Not all vendors support synchronization. Check your vendor's help desk page for the supported functionalities

At the product list in the platform, there is an action to synchronize a vendor's products. This action will first retrieve the new product list from the supplier and then also update the fixed products.

More information can be found at Are products from an external supplier's catalog automatically updated?

Send purchase order to supplier.

Not all vendors support automatic order creation. Check your vendor's help desk page for supported functionality

A purchase order can be automatically converted to an order with the vendor. Add the desired products on the purchase order and through the action Send to <supplier>. In the popup you can check the delivery details and then order the delivery from the supplier.

If the supplier is not linked correctly, the action will not be visible.

Relation-linking-to-supplier-linking

The platform needs to know which of your suppliers in the platform correspond to which linkage. In `Settings`->`Supplier`->`Fields and Sections`->`General`, the External Product Supplier field must be made visible.

Then look up the supplier you want to link to and select the appropriate link in the External Product Supplier field.

Supplier connection with Tradeplace

External supplier interfacing with Desco

External supplier interfacing with STG

External supplier interfacing with Kramp

External supplier interfacing with Rexel